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Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools are challenging our understanding of plagiarism. How should we deal with plagiarism of ideas if this misbehaviour is increasingly common, and it is ...

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Telling an LLM that 2 + 2 = 5 is enough to make it follow forbidden instructions.

June 30, 2026 • Mark Zuckerberg met with Kalshi's CEO last year about a potential deal, but talks did not move forward. Now Meta is making its own prediction market app.

The model has been shut down for 2½ weeks due to security concerns, roiling the artificial-intelligence industry. The growing use of AI agents is set to increase corporate AI token spend, and some ...